Photography Lighting Quotes

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I look like I am possessed by the blazing forces of darkness, at least in the eye department.

Essentially, in photography, I think on two levels: one emotional and the other technical. The emotional impact has to do with looking for something dramatic happening in the photograph, something that reaches out and touches somebody in some way. And the technical is having to do with composition and framing - light and dark, light and shadow.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.